This "CFT" is useless for reservists because 1/2 the fuckers are going to fallout anyway. What are you going to do? Put them on a "at-home" program? it's not like they're going to come into the drill center for the following month and get PT'ed to death.

All it's going to do is hurt us in terms of numbers if they get 'admin seperated', discharged or whatever. And then we'll be non-deployable. We've already got the body fat / weight regulation which people can get kicked out for, and PFT failure options, etc.

I guess it helps people like me, who have a high PFT, rifle score, etc. However, I just feel like this is another Marine Corps brass bullshit where they just sit around jacking off thinking of retarded ideas to implement. How about more mout / clearing training requirements? How about required machine gun training? How about more convoy ops training? Range shooting with RCO's (since we don't use iron sites in iraq)?.

I have a difficult time with pullups but I am in better combat fitness shape than many others who can rack out 20 pullups.

why is this you might ask? This is because I have a much core and lower body strength. This means I can hump anything on my back for how ever long, while others struggle.

Those reservists that have problems with the current PFT or the proposed CFT will either shape in or shape out.

I also had to pass SAW training before I completed 03 training, they don't do that in POG training?

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The only thing we really had to pass was back in MCT where we were tested on all the weapon systems, saw, 240, grenades, AT4, mout/clearing, humps, etc etc.... but all this knowledge is lost over time, you know? I think things need to be more serious when it comes to combat when you're in the reserve 'fleet' . Stupid 'tests' like taking a hump with a flak and kevlar / rifle is something we already do, but you're just getting scored . We need more actual skills training that's going to help us not get killed. We need personal experiences and stories, what happened, how we can change, what worked, and what didn't from the ENLISTED side. In my company we have experience on ECP's, mounted patrols, sentries, search teams, snipers, etc etc etc....In Fallujah. Why not take that and learn from it instead of "okay this drill we are going to test you on a 1.5 mile hump :gay: and wait around for 8 hours doing nothing and just wait for the officers to finish their meeting".

The only thing we really had to pass was back in MCT where we were tested on all the weapon systems, saw, 240, grenades, AT4, mout/clearing, humps, etc etc.... but all this knowledge is lost over time, you know? I think things need to be more serious when it comes to combat when you're in the reserve 'fleet' . Stupid 'tests' like taking a hump with a flak and kevlar / rifle is something we already do, but you're just getting scored . We need more actual skills training that's going to help us not get killed. We need personal experiences and stories, what happened, how we can change, what worked, and what didn't from the ENLISTED side. In my company we have experience on ECP's, mounted patrols, sentries, search teams, snipers, etc etc etc....In Fallujah. Why not take that and learn from it instead of "okay this drill we are going to test you on a 1.5 mile hump :gay: and wait around for 8 hours doing nothing and just wait for the officers to finish their meeting".